Architecture

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1. Classical Architecture

Traditional organization of space: Organizing space in classical China was based on a geometric vision of the world developed from Chinese cosmology which perceived the sky as round, and the earth as square. The latter was composed of square areas grouped hierarchically around a center. Accordingly, the earth formed a network of spatial correspondences to the "whole", which characterized the human living space. The ma…